Stands

Famous quotes containing the word stands:

    “There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
    —Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)

    “Young children make only the simple assumption: “This is life—you go along....” He stands ready to go along with whatever adults seem to want. He stands poised, trying to figure out what they want. The young child is almost at the mercy of adults—it is so important to him to please.”
    —James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)

    “Knaves and fools
    have done you impious wrong,
    Venus, for venery stands for impurity
    and Venus as desire
    is venereous, lascivious.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)